Whoa! What a dive into the OST, you little buggers! I picked up the word “bugger” from Terrence, so there’s no better time to drop it. Just one track to listen to, which sounds like any generic video game military march, in the most bland sense possible. Snare drums tapped out emotionlessly with equally depressing drumsticks. The track plays during the intro, the mission brief, and the post-mission debrief. There’s nothing else to stick in your ears, aside from the sound effects of guys having their throats slit or getting shot by us. 90% of our experience, basically. A real shame for a game from 1992; it might have been understandable three years earlier, but here… not exactly a highlight. It’s all the more of a shame because you can tell a lot of care went into certain sounds, at least on the Amiga—because on the Atari, you can’t say the same. Each weapon has its own firing sound, and slitting someone’s throat is strangely very ASMR for me. I know that only two guys worked on Fire Force: Dave Gibbons the coder, Steven Day the graphic designer. And kudos to them, right ? But a little under-the-table payment to someone who could’ve whipped up themes for each area, or even each mission—let’s be honest—that would’ve really nailed it. And there you go, no choice, I’m gonna have to stick this same track in here. What a disaster.